Elizabeth Anne Astrand (1057) | Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

Biography:
Elizabeth Anne Astrand (1057)
22/05/1874 –03/04/1954

Elizabeth Anne Astrand (1057)

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Plot 1057 Elizabeth Ann Astrand (late Golding, née Hewitt)

Elizabeth’s early life has proved difficult to trace in any detail. She was born 22 May 1874 in Secunderabad, India according to the information she gave for the 1939 Register. Her death registration, however, gives the year as 1871.

According to her first marriage certificate her father was Fredrick Hewitt, a drill sergeant. Secunderabad was established as a British cantonment in 1806 and large numbers of British troops would have been stationed there during the 19thc century. Her mother has not been identified.

In early 1900 she married Charles Harrison Golding at St Olave’s, Southwark, but Charles died later that year in the Kensington district aged only 23. Frustratingly it has proved impossible to find any other information about Charles.

The 1901 census record shows Elizabeth, widowed, as a “patient” at “The Home” in the parish of Clifton Hampden in Oxfordshire. This would appear to be a small maternity home as Elizabeth was accompanied by her 9 week old daughter Lilian and two of the other three women listed as patients also had infants.

 Baby Lilian vanishes from the records after this, but as she is not listed with the family in the 1911 census it seems likely that she died soon after birth.

On 17 December 1904 Elizabeth married William Ernest Astrand, a half-Finnish railway porter eight years her junior, at St Mary’s, Balham, London.

Their son Ernest Herbert Hewitt was born in 1906 and Frederick Martyn in 1908 in Battersea. In 1911 Ernest, Elizabeth and both boys were living at 6, Spencer Cottages, Christchurch Road, Mortlake. Ernest’s occupation was given as “hotel waiter”.

Their daughter Violet Isabel was born 22 March 1914 at 13, Thornton Road East Sheen. William Ernest gave his name as Ernest William on the baptismal record and his occupation as hotel manager. He appears to have retained that order of first names for the rest of his life.

In 1920 Ernest jnr. (Ernie) died aged only 14. He is commemorated on the memorial here.

In 1921 the census returns show the family living at 74, Albion Road, Hounslow. They were only occupying two rooms, so this must have been lodgings. Ernest had changed career again and was working in Whitechapel as a platelayer for the Metropolitan District Railway Company.

At some point after 1921 they moved to Berkhamsted and the 1928 Electoral Register shows Elizabeth and Ernest William at “Lodge at Chalet”. As that register is in alphabetical order of surname, not by street, it is impossible to say whereabouts this was.

By 1929 their address was 27, Greenway West but by 1939 they were living at Shrublands Avenue and William was working as a private gardener.

William died early in 1948 aged 64 and was buried here. Elizabeth survived him until the spring of 1954 when she passed away aged 80. (Or 83 according to the death registration).

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Plot 1057 Elizabeth Ann Astrand (late Golding, née Hewitt)

Elizabeth’s early life has proved difficult to trace in any detail. She was born 22 May 1874 in Secunderabad, India according to the information she gave for the 1939 Register. Her death registration, however, gives the year as 1871.

According to her first marriage certificate her father was Fredrick Hewitt, a drill sergeant. Secunderabad was established as a British cantonment in 1806 and large numbers of British troops would have been stationed there during the 19thc century. Her mother has not been identified.

In early 1900 she married Charles Harrison Golding at St Olave’s, Southwark, but Charles died later that year in the Kensington district aged only 23. Frustratingly it has proved impossible to find any other information about Charles.

The 1901 census record shows Elizabeth, widowed, as a “patient” at “The Home” in the parish of Clifton Hampden in Oxfordshire. This would appear to be a small maternity home as Elizabeth was accompanied by her 9 week old daughter Lilian and two of the other three women listed as patients also had infants.

 Baby Lilian vanishes from the records after this, but as she is not listed with the family in the 1911 census it seems likely that she died soon after birth.

On 17 December 1904 Elizabeth married William Ernest Astrand, a half-Finnish railway porter eight years her junior, at St Mary’s, Balham, London.

Their son Ernest Herbert Hewitt was born in 1906 and Frederick Martyn in 1908 in Battersea. In 1911 Ernest, Elizabeth and both boys were living at 6, Spencer Cottages, Christchurch Road, Mortlake. Ernest’s occupation was given as “hotel waiter”.

Their daughter Violet Isabel was born 22 March 1914 at 13, Thornton Road East Sheen. William Ernest gave his name as Ernest William on the baptismal record and his occupation as hotel manager. He appears to have retained that order of first names for the rest of his life.

In 1920 Ernest jnr. (Ernie) died aged only 14. He is commemorated on the memorial here.

In 1921 the census returns show the family living at 74, Albion Road, Hounslow. They were only occupying two rooms, so this must have been lodgings. Ernest had changed career again and was working in Whitechapel as a platelayer for the Metropolitan District Railway Company.

At some point after 1921 they moved to Berkhamsted and the 1928 Electoral Register shows Elizabeth and Ernest William at “Lodge at Chalet”. As that register is in alphabetical order of surname, not by street, it is impossible to say whereabouts this was.

By 1929 their address was 27, Greenway West but by 1939 they were living at Shrublands Avenue and William was working as a private gardener.

William died early in 1948 aged 64 and was buried here. Elizabeth survived him until the spring of 1954 when she passed away aged 80. (Or 83 according to the death registration).

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